Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa
Author
Filander, Zoleka
Author
Griffiths, Charles
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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Tromikosoma uranus
(
Thomson, 1877
)
Fig. 21
A–C.
Phormosoma uranus
:
A. Agassiz, 1881
: 103
.
Echinosoma uranus
:
H.L. Clark, 1925a
: 57
.
Tromikosoma uranus
:
Mortensen, 1935
: 168
–170. Pl. VI,
Figs 2–3
. Pl. LXXV,
Figs 19–21
;
Schultz, 2011
: 1108
, Figs
1943– 1944
;
Filander & Griffiths, 2014
: 52
. Pl. I, Fig. H.
FIGURE 21.
Tromikosoma uranus
(SAMC-A22122).
A
. Map showing distribution.
B
. view of preserved specimen.
C
. Oral view of preserved specimen.
Material examined.
SAMC-A22122.
Identification.
Test hemispherical. Large tubercles reported to be outside pore-pairs of distal oral ambulacra. Madreporite divided into 3–4 parts, but this seems to be an individual variation (
Mortensen, 1935
).
Global maximum size.
Maximum test diameter
125 mm
.
Global distribution.
Portugal to West Africa, also reported from the West coast region of South Africa (
Filander & Griffiths 2014
); at
850–2750 m
depth (
Schultz, 2011
).
Remarks.
Record based on a single identified sample from the Iziko
South
African Museum.